TV & Radio (The West Australian)
Jeremy Clarkson insists his hit TV motoring show Top Gear isn’t just for blokes. With the live version of the program due to land in Australia next February as part of its first world tour, Clarkson wants to spread the love for the show between the sexes.
Source: www.thewest.com.au
Millions ride on Rahul Mahajan, punters’ favourite on TV show (Calcutta News)
Initially one of the weakest candidates, ‘Bigg Boss’ participant Rahul Mahajan has now sprung a surprise as the hot favourite of punters who have placed bets running into millions of rupees on his winning the TV reality show.
Source: www.calcuttanews.net
Vegas Date Trailer
What happens when a black gangsta’ rapper and a white blonde popstar diva are made to go out together on the Vegas strip for reality TV? Nothing short of raw and uncensored. America’s under-belly is laid out in the open as two diametrically opposing views were chronicled over a four day period in Las Vegas 2005 creating a reality TV show too hot for any network to air. This true account is not only too hot for TV, but even film festivals have said its too controversial to show. Reality TVs limits are destroyed. Nothing like this has ever been aired.
Author: Vegasdate
Keywords: urban black diva realitytv tv reality rap pop vegas las trailer censored banned
Added: November 1, 2008
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Chris Rock [3 of 5] Bring The Pain! [1996]
Chris Rock: Bring the Pain is a 1996 HBO television special starring comedian Chris Rock. This was Rock’s second special for the network following 1994’s Big Ass Jokes. Although Rock was already a well-known comedian, Bring the Pain made him one of the most popular comedians in the United States.
Author: OcularStream
Keywords: chris rock bring the pain Stand-up comedy HBO big ass jokes
Added: November 2, 2008
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Sunday’s TV Week magazine contains a cover story about the season premiere… (Miami Herald)
Sunday’s TV Week magazine contains a cover story about the season premiere of Law & Order: Criminal Intent on the USA Network. The network decided last week, after the TV Week section had been printed, that it is postponing the debut. The show will return in early 2009, the network said.
Source: www.miamiherald.com
Italian ex-freemason boss to have own TV show (Times of Malta)
The former head of an outlawed masonic lodge linked to some of Italy’s biggest scandals has sparked an outcry by announcing that he will take part in a television talk show to give his version of events.
Source: www.timesofmalta.com
Network - 4-11 - The Howard Beale Story (Peter Finch, 1976)
Howard Beale (Peter Finch) is an aging TV anchorman for UBS who is fired, effective in two weeks, after his ratings have been steadily deteriorating. He reacts to this by sensationally announcing on live television his intention to commit suicide on air. In doing so, Beale becomes a major TV icon and one of the most valuable assets to the Communications Corporation of America (CCA), the company that is gradually taking control of UBS. As a result he is given his own show as ‘the mad prophet of the air-waves’. He appears live on television every week-day evening to tell the real truth to the people of America. The programme is a huge success but Beale uses his power to make startling revelations about CCA, leaving the company executives with a serious problem. _______________________ Media madness reigns supreme in screenwriter Paddy Chayefsky’s scathing satire about the uses and abuses of network television. But while Chayefsky’s and director Sidney Lumet’s take on television may seem quaint in the age of “reality TV” and Jerry Springer’s talk-show fisticuffs, it’s every bit as potent now as it was when the film was released in 1976. And because Chayefsky was one of the greatest of all dramatists, his Oscar-winning script about the ratings frenzy at the cost of cultural integrity is a showcase for powerhouse acting by Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight (who each won Oscars), and Oscar nominee William Holden in one of his finest roles.Dunaway plays the frigid, ratings-obsessed producer who pursues success with cold-blooded zeal; Holden is the married executive who tries to thaw her out during his own seething midlife crisis. Through it all, Chayefsky (via Finch) urges the viewer to repeat the now-famous mantra “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it anymore!” to reclaim our humanity from the medium that threatens to steal it away.
Author: OcularStream
Keywords: 1976 beale dunaway faye finch holden howard network peter story william
Added: November 1, 2008
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